The Emerging Outer Space Order : Professional Orders, Heterarchy, Hypermodernity and Political Reason
Den framväxande rymdordningen : professionella ordningar, heterarki, hypermodernitet och politiskt förnuft
Author
Summary, in English
This explorative inquiry shows that the kind of order emerging in outer space can best be conceptualized not as anarchical, nor as hierarchical but as heterarchical. I find that quantum-mind entangled professional orders are the principal units that define the outer space order’s evolving direction. Using space as a crucial and illustrative example of the world order, I argue that these professional orders constitute the depoliticized fabric of the world setting its direction. I find that the prominent and defining professional orders are the scientific, commercial and military orders, which trajectories extend well into the future. Moreover, I theorize that the emerging outer space order foreshadows a transition into hypermodernity as the constellations of satellites for fast-speed-Internet that are being launched in outer space are creating a gigantic ‘transmission belt’. In addition, this inquiry reveals an imminent cosmological shift, as the world is yet again extended. This time further and more permanently into outer space with consequences for our sense of responsibility for Earth. I conclude that the increasingly heterarchical world, the ‘emboosted transmission belt’ and prevailing visions of the extended world call for a different ‘way of being political’ – for reflective political reason at the individual level including reconsiderations of professional identities.
Department/s
Publishing year
2021
Language
English
Publication/Series
Lund Political Studies
Issue
201
Full text
Document type
Dissertation
Publisher
Lund University
Topic
- Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies)
Keywords
- Outer space
- Order
- Heterarchy
- Hypermodernity
- Political reason
- Theorizing
- Diorama
- rymden
- ordning
- djupstrukturer
- heterarki
- hypermodernitet
- politiskt förnuft
- diorama
Status
Published
Supervisor
- Magnus Jerneck
- Håkan Edström
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0460-0037
- ISBN: 978-91-7895-834-4
- ISBN: 978-91-7895-833-7
Defence date
20 May 2021
Defence time
10:15
Defence place
Online, LU Zoom meeting: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/68113460958
Opponent
- Mark Rhinard (Professor)